On the existence of the stable birth-type distribution in a general branching process cell cycle model with unequal cell division

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 685-695

  Alexandersson, Marina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Branching process; Cell population; Crump Mode Jagers; Perron Frobenius; Stable type distribution; Unequal cell division

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035438332     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/jap/1005091032     Document Type: Article

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